Medical Research Unmoored from Science (NPR)

Scientific foundation showing cracks

The U.S. pours billions of dollars into the pursuit of patient care improvements. However, there's mounting evidence that systemic problems in the practice of biomedical science are undermining those efforts, reports NPR.

Filed under unintended consequences, Harris believes that cutting the NIH budget, as President Trump has proposed, could worsen the problem by intensifying the race for research dollars, rather than root out waste or improve science.